Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Henrik RÃtzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you only want an IBM i to play around with or test on for a shorter
period of
time, IBM has their VLP - it is completely free.




On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The timeshare at www.rzkh.de will cost you 35.7 euro per month (annual
> payment is 10x the monthly), if I read the site correctly - this is for
> 7.1 and OAR, 1GB storage, 4 libraries, 4 sessions, etc. That is about
> $49 bucks today.
>
> They have options for dedicated machines (LPARs?). And, of course, free
> access at V5R3 in limited space.
>
> I keep a free account here - don't need it much, have other options for
> more recent releases. But it's not a bad deal!
>
> Vern
>
> On 11/13/2010 8:54 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> > Here is where I got the $65 number from, which is an entirely
> > dedicated and virtualized OS hosted on a shared machine:
> > http://www.hosting.com/services/platform-services/cloud
> >
> > And if you don't need an entire virtual OS then you can go with
> > DreamHost at $8.95/month: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
> >
> > I have yet to use Amazon EC2 but have used their S3 service for awhile
> > now (about 2yrs I think) and like it alot (mostly just to backup about
> > 70GB of data).
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> > www.MowYourLawn.com/blog <http://www.mowyourlawn.com/blog>
> > www.OpenRPGUI.com <http://www.openrpgui.com/>
> > www.SoftwareSavesLives.com <http://www.softwaresaveslives.com/>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nathan Andelin<nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote:
> > > > From: Aaron Bartell
> > > > I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
> > > > would probably lose money on that tier ...
> > >
> > > Well, that doesn't sound very reasonable.  How did you come up with
> $65/month?
> > >   I think a micro partition at www.rackspace.com runs $150/month, to
> start.  A
> > > 10-20GB database under Microsoft Azure runs $200/month, to start.
> > >
> > > Pricing for Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine are so goofy that I wasn't
> able to
> > > figure them out. Actually, it has been hard for me to compare pricing
> because
> > > it's hard to know what you're getting under Windows, Linux, and other
> platforms.
> > > I think the dynamic changes when you move from a discussion about a
> development
> > > server to a discussion of a deployment server.  Force.com Enterprise
> allows you
> > > to deploy up to 10 applications at $50/month/user.  I don't think
> pricing like
> > > that would fly in the K-12 software market where you're deploying
> applications
> > > for teachers, parents, and students.
> > >
> > > -Nathan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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